Cord skipping and securing device



May 8, 1923' 1,454,717

' A. M. ADAMS CORD GRIPPING AND SECURING DEVICE Filed June 11, 1920INVENTOR WITNBS:

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Patented May 8, 1923. f

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AARON M. ADAMS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORD GRIPPING AND SECURING DEVICE.

Application filed .Tune 11, 1920. Serial No. 388,295.

T (LZZIUiLOWZ-Yit may concern are parallel to the straight vportionlZ.the Be it known that 1', AARON M. AnAiu's a ends being then bent awayfrom the straight citizen of the United States. residing at portion 12and again bent upon themselves 50 Philadelphia. in the county ofPhiladelphia to form larger loops l5 with the extremities 5 and State ofPennsylvania, have invented 16 of the wire bent toward each other andnew and useful Improvements in Cord engaging at i the medial portion ofthe Gripping and Securing Devices, of which straight portion l2 in facthaving the the following is a specification. ends or e7; reinitics l6abutting against the 55 An object of the invention is to promedial partof the straight portion 12. By 10 vide a gripping and securing devicefor the arrangement of the loops l5 and the securing the ends of a cordor cords. abutting of the extremities of the wire The invention isparticularly adapted for "UDSt the straight portion, it will be apuse inconnection with straw hats to se- 'e that the loops 1% will be of aS})l"1111- 60 cure the ends of certain cords of an elastic line natureand that the parts which forin nature and which are employed inconnecthe loops 13 can readily receive the ends tion with the sweat bandof the hat to proof a cord 17 passing through the loops as vide acushioning or resilient portion there shown. Pa ticularly in a case ofelastic for. cord, it will e clear that when a pull is 65 It will ofcourse be understood that the exerted onthe end or ends whichhave been20 device may be generally employed in sepassed through the loops 13.that such pull curing the ends of cords, ribbons or bands, will decreasethe normal diameter of the but that I particularly desire it for use incord so that it will readily slide through connection with hats becauseof the effective the loops and upon releasing the pull upon 7 manner inwhich it can be adapted to the the cord, it will tend to resume itsnormal 5 hat, concealed beneath the sweat band and diameter and thus begripped or held in made in a small compact form which will the loops13so that theband or loop formed not in any manner affect the wearing ofthe by the cord in the sweat band '18 of a hat h t, 19 can be subjectedto a more or less ten- 75 In the further disclosure of the invention,'sion by simply adjusting the device as to reference is to be had to theaccompanying the free ends of the cord.

drawings constituting a part of this speci- Having described myinvention I claimfication, in which similar characters of ref- As a newarticle of manufacture, a griperence denote corresponding parts in allping: and securing member comprising a 80 the views. and in which,single piece of wire bent to form a straight Figure 1 is a perspectiveView of the memportion and then having parts bent upon ber. andthemselves to form auxiliary straight por- Figure 2 is a view looking atthe inner tions folded on the first mentioned straight face of a sweatband of a hat which has portion andwith said lirstmentioned straight 85been turned down to disclose the manner portion forming gripping loops,theends of positioning the member. of the wire being then bent outwardlyand Referring more particularly to the views away from the firstmentioned straight northe member. indicated in its entirety by the tionand bent upon themselves to have the numeral 10 comprises a single pieceof extremities of the wire converge, meet and 90 spring-like wire 11,which is bent to proabut against the first mentioned straight vide astraight portion 12, with the ends portion at the niedial art thereof.

bent upon themselves to form loops as at In testimony whereof I afiixmysignature. 13, the other straight portions 14 of which AARON M. ADAMS.

